The failure to intervene in the Syrian crisis will have “terrible”
consequences for years, Tony Blair has warned.

The former Prime Minister conceded that the Iraq invasion had made many wary
of intervening in foreign conflicts. However, he said that Iraq would also
have descended into civil war if he had not taken the decision to join the
US-led invasion to remove Saddam Hussein.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on the 20th anniversary of the
genocide in Rwanda, in which 800,000 were killed as world leaders failed to
act, Mr Blair criticised the decision not to remove President